From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: guix pull
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:55:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220216175503.u6zitslgnloqq2w6@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yg0yPpS4VgVTwCha@jasmine.lan>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:28:08PM +0000, Gottfried wrote:
> > But If I do a guix pull only in my user account, it would mean, as far as I
> > understand it, the root account would not get security updates?
>
> Correct.
>
> > What should be the procedure?
>
> As each user that you wish to update, do `guix pull` to update Guix and
> the list of available packages and services, and then do `guix upgrade`
> to actually upgrade your packages. If you use Guix System, you upgrade
> the system with `guix system reconfigure`.
>
Note however that
sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
uses the guix of the user who is running sudo.
See https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/de/html_node/Nach-der-Systeminstallation.html
It is therefore possible to never use root’s guix .
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-16 16:28 guix pull Gottfried
2022-02-16 17:19 ` Leo Famulari
2022-02-16 17:55 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2022-02-16 19:22 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 19:28 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 20:27 ` Leo Famulari
2022-02-16 20:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-16 20:35 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 22:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-16 20:38 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 22:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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